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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 15, 2006Cottle County, King County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 787 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2006-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Oct 15, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 9:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 1:44 PM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
144 PM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006

TXZ021>044-160300-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
144 PM CDT SUN OCT 15 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTH
PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON.
THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD FROM NEAR THE NEW
MEXICO AND TEXAS STATE LINE LATE LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON.

FLOODING

AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...CAUSING LOCALIZED
FLOODING AND PONDING ON ROADS. RAINFALL TOTALS TODAY MAY EXCEED
TWO INCHES OVER PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH A FEW LOCATIONS
RECEIVING IN EXCESS OF FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL. FLASH FLOODING MAY
QUICKLY DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. STORM SPOTTERS AND LOCAL
OFFICIALS ARE URGED TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO ACT WHEN THE THREAT OF FLASH
FLOODING INCREASES OR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
PLEASE PROMPTLY RELAY ANY HAZARDOUS WEATHER REPORTS TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN LUBBOCK.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 15, 9:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCottle, King3 hr
Oct 15, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens, Garza, Kent3 hr
Oct 15, 10:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLUBChildress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Hall and 5 more6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.